Social Groups

Craft Group

This group started some time in 1994. Currently we meet on Mondays (except public holidays) from approximately 9.30am til 12 noon. We pay $1.00 per visit towards tea/coffee and biscuits and make a small donation to the church each year. We go out at Christmas time for a lunch which is partly funded by any excess money we have from our weekly contribution.

We currently have about 18 members, half from this Parish and the rest are friends. Our members are from various countries - England, Scotland, Holland, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Ireland, South Africa, India and a few 'true blue Aussies!"

In the '90's when Whitfords Shopping Centre use to have a 'Volunteers Community Stall Day,' we ran a stall and the profits from the sales of goods were donated to the SVdeP Society.

In about 1997 an article in the the then Wanneroo Times published a 'Teddy' pattern asking for teddies from the 'Samaritans Purse' Charity and also baby clothes for 'Aids' babies in Orpahages in Europe, Asia & Africa - so we knitted around 500 teddies and baby jumpers. When we could no longer deliver these to Osbourne Park depot, we knitted the teddies for the Ambulance Service in Joondalup. The New Emergency Dept was opened in the Joondalup Health Campus and in Feb 2011, we donate our teddies to the Children's Emergency Dept on a regular basis where we are told they work wonders for the kids, and in the first year of it opening we have donated over 300.

As some of our members are from Zimbabwe and South Africa - we also knit teddies, baby clothes and small blankets for children in wheelchairs in orphanages in these countries, and we welcome donations of wool to help us with these projects.

So although we do plenty of talking, we try to make ourselves useful. Anyone is welcome - you don't have to do any of these things - do your 'own' thing or just come for a 'cuppa & a chat!'

Evangelization Prayer

Heavenly Father,
we are ever grateful for the knowledge and faith you have given us in your Son, Jesus Christ.
In gratitude for these gifts that bring us peace in this life and certain hope of eternal life with you, we ask you to extend your gifts to those in our parish who have lost sight of them and those who have not heard of them.
Give us in our weakness the strength we need to do whatever the Holy Spirit directs us to do in order to spread the knowledge and love of Jesus and Mary and the Holy catholic Church.
St. Simon Peter, patron of our parish, you were instructed by Jesus to evangelise the whole world.
Help us to make your parish a centre of love for God and neighbour.
We make this prayer through Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.

Parish Mission Statement

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We, at St Simon Peter Parish, are a Catholic family
called through Baptism
to know, love and serve God and neighbour.

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We strive to witness the Kingdom of God
through proclaiming the Good News of Jesus,
celebrating the Sacraments, and serving the wider community,
especially the disconnected from our Parish.